Evaluation of myocardial CT perfusion in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department: Comparison with SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 1510-1517

  Feuchtner, Gudrun Maria ^a,b   Plank, Fabian ^b   Pena, Constantino ^a   Battle, Juan ^a   Min, James ^c   Leipsic, Jonathon ^d   Labounty, Troy ^c   Janowitz, Warren ^a   Katzen, Barry ^a   Ziffer, Jack ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a  

^a BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866618357     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302531     Document Type: Article

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